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January 2007 - Posts

This really ought to be made for two. Of course, I'm on my own right now, so that doesn't quite work out. But that's no reason to eat like a prisoner. After all, self-indulgence is its own reward. This weekend, I somehow developed an inexplicable urge Read More...

During the summer, save for the occasional roasted potato, and maybe the carrots in mirepoix, I tend to mostly ignore roots and tubers. But in the fall and wintertime, when it’s a bit cooler, I occasionally get the urge to just load up on them. Read More...

I lived on Brötchen , the “little breads” that we’d just call “rolls” in English, during my year and a half as a student in Germany. Insanely fresh, they came in a good dozen varieties at most bakeries. Thanks to my tiny budget and complicated school Read More...

The colonial legacy of the British in China produced a strange but potentially wonderful confection known as Peking Dust or Beijing Dust. It’s actually very simple, with a base constructed from little more than boiled chestnuts mashed coarsely with Read More...

Somehow I’m always happy to make a standard American pie crust, slightly flaky and crumbly and crisp all at once. I occasionally veer toward a rough puff pastry but I’m usually just not that committed, and I do like a nice American pie crust, Read More...

I’ve tended toward silence in the last few months. My apologies for that; I’ve explained most of the reasons for that in recent posts… Beyond the usual, for a few weeks, Hiromi was in town, so I preferred not to spend all my time in Read More...